While it's nice to always push the envelope, certain directions of this are only good for the hardcore bleeding-edge types. Products of these caliber definitely appeal only to a limited audience.
Yes there is a set of air rules that dictate how approaching aircraft should avoid each other. It was many years since I've been in ground school (never did take up flying), but I remember this for fact.
While it may be easy to follow in the case of two small personal aircraft and visual flight rules, with two jetliner's closing in each other at a high rate of speed... there isn't much time, so better to rely on TCAS.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but one of the criticisms I've read about Asterisk is that it is more or less a unified app... runs into scalability problems and the inability to load certain processes off to other hardware.
Whether this "suite" will address this issue properly, I guess it's a wait and see.
Apologies for the Arnie quote. But I agree, discipline has alot to do with how good Open Source products can be. There is dedication to the code, less politics and less money floating around than lets says a MSFT operation... that combined results in a superior product.
I wondered how long it would take for the dinosaurs in Hollywood to finally catch up with the rest of the industrialized world.
Give it another few years and Hollywood will know to cut out the "middle man" (aka movie theaters) and give people direct access to films. With people investing so much money in HDTV and nice audio setups to complement these, a cinema will be a thing for nostalgia.
Even the declining theatre ticket sales are evidence of people's distaste for going to the theater. And if H5N1 ever breaks out... you know people won't be going to any theaters!
Think you are refering to PPS (Precise Precision System)... military positioning units can pick up another stream (think it's called Y) that is a heck of alot more precise than ol' GPS.
All these "pixel art" sites and work you see are nothing more than a rip off of Habitat.
AFAIK that's one of the oldest programs/systems using avatars.
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While it's nice to always push the envelope, certain directions of this are only good for the hardcore bleeding-edge types. Products of these caliber definitely appeal only to a limited audience.
These guys should really try out for the Blue Man Group... if their other careers don't work out that is.
Yes there is a set of air rules that dictate how approaching aircraft should avoid each other. It was many years since I've been in ground school (never did take up flying), but I remember this for fact. While it may be easy to follow in the case of two small personal aircraft and visual flight rules, with two jetliner's closing in each other at a high rate of speed... there isn't much time, so better to rely on TCAS.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but one of the criticisms I've read about Asterisk is that it is more or less a unified app... runs into scalability problems and the inability to load certain processes off to other hardware. Whether this "suite" will address this issue properly, I guess it's a wait and see.
Apologies for the Arnie quote. But I agree, discipline has alot to do with how good Open Source products can be. There is dedication to the code, less politics and less money floating around than lets says a MSFT operation... that combined results in a superior product.
I wondered how long it would take for the dinosaurs in Hollywood to finally catch up with the rest of the industrialized world. Give it another few years and Hollywood will know to cut out the "middle man" (aka movie theaters) and give people direct access to films. With people investing so much money in HDTV and nice audio setups to complement these, a cinema will be a thing for nostalgia. Even the declining theatre ticket sales are evidence of people's distaste for going to the theater. And if H5N1 ever breaks out... you know people won't be going to any theaters!
OMG = Outlaw Motorcycle Gang!
My thoughts exactly.
They are not terrorists... just "enemy combatants". :)
Interesting how the same "partners" in this exercise are also members of the Echelon eavesdropping initiative.
This thing could be bigger than the NSA ruckus.
...we know that this one will go away quietly and we'll never get to the true heart of it.
Must be the /. effect. ;)
Didn't know they were still around!
MacGyver + A-Team = UNSTOPPABLE.
Think you are refering to PPS (Precise Precision System)... military positioning units can pick up another stream (think it's called Y) that is a heck of alot more precise than ol' GPS.
Massage parlours... AKA Romeo-Tango.
My bad... it was called Habitat when they were running it as a Beta... it then became Club Caribe.
All these "pixel art" sites and work you see are nothing more than a rip off of Habitat. AFAIK that's one of the oldest programs/systems using avatars.